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On Tuesday, 27 January 2015 06:05:26 UTC, Dwight Arthur wrote:
>
> *On: *Sunday, January 25 2015, Richard C wrote:
>
> […]Ok - I am confused.   When you say 'you will see the effect of having 
> sorted them' - how will this have been done[…] 
>
> This is very straightforward, don’t overthink it. In the All Tasks view, 
> select a parent item that has multiple subtasks. Right click on the parent 
> item, select Advanced and then Sort Subtasks. On the “Sorting” popup, 
> select “caption” – Ascending for the first line. It does not matter much 
> what if anything shows in the other three lines. Hit “OK”. The subtasks 
> should immediately jump into alphabetical order. This is not caused by the 
> view you are using. Rather, the subtasks have been actually moved in the 
> outline to a new order that’s alphabetical.
>
> Yup - agree with that and when the option isn't greyed out,  it works fine 
and as you describe. 

>  
>
 

> Incidentally, do you know what happens if you use the view Sort button in 
> a hierarchical view.  Does it sort the children of each parent into the 
> specified order?
>
> The ‘Sort” in the main view definition sorts the top level of the items 
> being displayed;  in a hierarchical view no children are sorted.
>
Thanks - that's useful to know
  

> If I open up my All tasks view  - which is a hierarchical view without any 
> filters or sorting - the Sort Sub-tasks is ungreyed (what one would expect) 
> but if I then apply a Show only those completed in the last 3 days filter, 
> the Sort sub-tasks view is still ungreyed.   Whereas, it is greyed in my 
> All tasks (Recent completed) view which appears to have exactly the same 
> set of filtering parameters.   Very odd. 
>
> I have several excellent explanations of this, following a little 
> experimentation I find that none of them work. So I can conclusively say 
> that I haven’t a clue of what’s going on.
>

:-)       I posted a support request and Andrey (indirectly) as asked for a 
copy of my file showing the problem.  Will report back.
 

> -Dwight
>

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